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Mr Smith Goes To Washington review by from Gloucestershire

Mr Smith goes to town 2 February 2005
...se performance is too likeable to not enjoy. Touching chemistry between him and Jean Arthur as well, so even if it does reach slightly sickly levels of Why The USA Is So G... Read customer review

You Can't Take It With You review by roncoach from suffolk

How could a director and cast like this ever fail---brilliant 12 October 2010
...s the best of everything good that cinema can bring us : great screen legends ( Jean Arthur, Jimmy Stewart, Barrymore), one of the greatest director ( collecting his third... Read customer review

Shane review by Northernsky from halifax, West Yorks

Well let him come 22 July 2007
...ren’t available. Alan Ladd as Shane and Van Heflin as Joe Starrett ,as well as Jean Arthur as Starretts wife Marian were chosen from a list of available actors with curre... Read customer review

Jean Arthur - filmography

Shane on DVD (1953)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch ..read more »

73% from 2,909 members

A Foreign Affair on DVD (1948)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur, John Lund
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate:
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.

68% from 228 members

A Lady Takes A Chance on DVD (1943)
Starring: John Wayne, Jean Arthur, Charles Winninger
Director: William A. Seiter, Henry Hathaway
Certificate:
Whilst taking a bus trip of the West, Molly Truesdale meets rodeo rider Duke Hudkins and falls in love on the spot...

56% from 111 members

The More the Merrier (1943)
Starring: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
A sparkling little comedy set in overcrowded, wartime Washington D.C., Arthur shares her small, one-bedroom apartment with McCrea and Coburn; the latter playing matchmaker. Coburn deservedly won a Best Supporting Oscar as the lovable Mr. Dingle.

61% from 16 members
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The Talk Of The Town on DVD (1942)
Starring: Cary Grant, Ronald Coleman, Edgar Buchanan
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
George Stevens' last film with Cary Grant represents yet another hit in his string of classic comedies. Grant stars as Leopold Dilg, a political activist who is wrongly indicted for arson and murder when a factory worker dies in a mill fire in the town of Sweetbrook. Believing that he'll be ..read more »

69% from 720 members

Arizona on DVD (1940)
Starring: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Certificate:
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at ..read more »

61% from 8 members

Mr Smith Goes To Washington on DVD (1939)
Starring: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains
Director: Frank Capra
Certificate:
Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles. The film opens as a succession of reporters shout into telephones announcing the death of Senator Samuel Foley. Senator Joseph Paine (Claude Rains), the state's senior ..read more »

74% from 5,910 members

Only Angels Have Wings on DVD (1939)
Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate:
Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' macho mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes. Cary Grant heads a ramshackle airmail and freight service, forced to fly in the most perilous of weather conditions to the most treacherous of destinations. Facing death on a ..read more »

68% from 1,101 member

You Can't Take It With You on DVD (1938)
Starring: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart
Director: Frank Capra
Certificate:
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populism by director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin. This is the story of the zany Sycamore household, presided over by Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel ..read more »

67% from 1,362 member

The Plainsman on DVD (1936)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Certificate:
Wild Bill Hickok attempts to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.

61% from 145 members

Mr Deeds Goes To Town on DVD (1936)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
Director: Frank Capra
Certificate:
When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by one Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) of Mandrake Falls, Vermont. Already a reasonably successful local businessman, Deeds doesn't really feel the need for anything extra in ..read more »

72% from 908 members

Jean Arthur facts

5 most recent films

Shane - 3.5 stars
A Foreign Affair - 3.5 stars
A Lady Takes A Chance - 3.0 stars
The More the Merrier - 3.0 stars
The Talk Of The Town - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Mr Smith Goes To Washington - 3.5 stars
Shane - 3.5 stars
Mr Deeds Goes To Town - 3.5 stars
The Talk Of The Town - 3.5 stars
A Foreign Affair - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The More the Merrier - 3.0 stars
Arizona - 3.0 stars
A Lady Takes A Chance - 3.0 stars
The Plainsman - 3.0 stars
You Can't Take It With You - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Edgar Buchanan - 3 times - show films
Thomas Mitchell - 2 times - show films
Edward Arnold - 2 times - show films
Gary Cooper - 2 times - show films
Cary Grant - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

George Stevens - 3 times - show films
Frank Capra - 3 times - show films
William A. Seiter - 1 times - show films
Howard Hawks - 1 times - show films
Wesley Ruggles - 1 times - show films

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